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Wildcat soccer team drops season opener 2-0 to Zeeland East
Wayland opened its soccer season Monday night with a 2-0 loss to visiting Zeeland East. The Dux sxored one goal each in both halves to edge past the Wildcats. Goalie…
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Cheetah program attracts 350 people at Pine Street Elementary
Mary Wykstra from Action for Cheetahs in Kenya (ACK) and "Zemba," a cheetah from the Columbus Zoo, visited Pine Street Elementary Monday in the concluding special program of the summer…
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CNN features leukemia patient Dawson Babiak’s crayon drive
Dawson Babiak, 5-year-old son of Wayland teacher Alison Babiak and Hopkins teacher Jason Babiak, is getting national attention in his heroic battle against leukemia. Dawson has launched a crayon donation…
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Probe claims Reps. Gamrat, Courser misused public resources
A Michigan House Business Office investigation claims that State Reps. Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser Michigan state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, "misused taxpayer resources" in an alleged attempted…
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Memorial Mass will be Sept. 10 for Dorothy Clary, 88, North Dorr
Dorothy (Harig) Clary, of North Dorr, died Friday, Aug. 21. She was 88. Born Dec. 19, 1926, she is survived by her children, Gloria and Milan Delfosse, Deborah and David…
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Monday Moanin’: Nobody knows what the hell they’re doing
By Jeff Salisbury Maybe you’ve seen the video of people of all ages, offering words of wisdom to those of their generation, but just a bit younger. I spotted it…
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The Muck Starts Here: We’re still paying for Iraq War debacle
by Barry Hastings (Much of this story will be in italics, and represents direct quotes from a piece I wrote for this site's publisher while he edited a regional newspaper…
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Democracy Tree: Attacks on Planned Parenthood bogus, unfair
Per usual, Michigan Republican lawmakers have proposed a spate of legislation in response to the deceptively edited Planned Parenthood tapes. A package of bills was introduced this week to prevent…
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Two grid coaches to make debuts in season openers Thursday
EDITOR'S NOTE: "We apologize for the previous apology." — Monty Python Martin indeed will open its football season Thursday evening at 7 .m. at Fennville. There has been conflicting information,…
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United Church of Wayland extends free lunches 1 more week
Though the original plan was to have the summer free meals program end Friday, Aug. 28, the United Church of Wayland is offering free lunches from Monday through Friday, Aug.…